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Visiting Places of Worship
Groups frequently arrange visits to particular local places of worship
to learn more about the faith in question. Sometimes they have ongoing
visit programmes.
Our continuing programme of visits
to churches, mosques, temples, gurdwaras, synagogues, centres, and
educational and hospital chaplaincies, together with the attendant
talks about the faiths, has as a whole served to inform the
groups’ members, and the members of the institutions being
visited, and helped us to deepen our mutual understanding and form
friendships.
Lancashire Forum of Faiths |
Recently, some local inter faith bodies such as Bolton Interfaith
Council and Merseyside Council of Faiths have been involved in helping
develop ‘faith trails’ or ‘faith walks’ for their areas which enable
the general public to visit and come to know about different local
places of worship.
A faith
trail which links 16 different places of worship in Bolton has
been unveiled.
The Bolton Faith Trail - the brainchild of the Bolton Interfaith
Council - introduces walkers to the history, beliefs and key
locations of Christians, Muslims and Hindus. The route was
launched by the Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Prentice Howarth-. Walkers
can trace the places of worship in the town centre on a route of
one-and-a-half miles. A walk around locations outside the centre
measures eight-and-a-half miles and a drive is 10 miles long. Mike
Creswell, who devised the route, said: "I hope this trail will
inspire Bolton people and those who visit the town to learn more
about different faiths." The Mayor added: "The Bolton Faith Trail
will promote community cohesion. I hope it will be of interest to
many groups in Bolton, particularly schools and community groups."
The 16 places of worship are: St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church,
the Quaker Meeting House, Bolton Parish Church, Bank Street
Unitarian Chapel, Victoria Hall Methodist Mission, St Andrew's and
St George's United Reform Church, the Salvation Army Citadel, Veda
Mandir, Noor ul Islam Mosque, Tayyiabah Mosque, St Thomas' Church,
Smithills Hall Chapel, Deane Parish Church, Shree Kutch Satsang
Swaminarayan Temple, Zakaria Mosque and the Shree Swaminarayan
Sidhant Sajivan Mandal. Bolton Evening News 23 April 2005
Download the Bolton Faith Trail booklet at
http://www.boltoncommunity.co.uk/sei/s/911/f1.pdf
The Liverpool Walk of Faith booklet can be
downloaded from
http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Images/tcm21-32263.pdf |
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